Forrester

Why Read This Report

As businesses strive to achieve competitive differentiation, growth, and global expansion while carefully managing costs, people strategies play a big factor in successful outcomes. In shaping these strategies, businesses are investing in processes and technology to recruit talent, identify key learning activities, align pay with performance, and identify and retain top performers. Human resource management (HRM) is moving to the forefront of innovation via cloud, mobile, social, and other cutting-edge technology adoption, a refreshing change after years of getting the short end of IT budgets. The HRM playbook, outlined in this executive overview, will enable you to align people strategies with technology trends, engage the entire workforce with HRM processes and programs, rationalize your portfolio of software applications, and align people performance with business performance.